John Engels (January 19, 1931 South Bend, Indiana – June 13, 2007 Vermont) was an American poet.

Life

In 1952, John Engels graduated from the University of Notre Dame in English. After Navy service, he studied Anglo-Irish literature at the University College, Dublin, then graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, with an M.F.A. in 1957. Engels taught at St. Norbert College, Saint Michael's College, Sweet Briar College, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Middlebury College, Emory University, and the University of Alabama. In 1995, he was Wyndham Robertson Chair in Creative Writing at Hollins College.

Engels' work appeared in Harper's, the New Yorker, and many other prestigious journals.

Awards

• 1976 — Frost Fellow at Bread Loaf Writers Conference

• 1979 — Guggenheim Fellowship

• 1986 — National Poetry Series, for Cardinals in the Ice Age

• 1988 — Poet in residence at The Frost Place

Works

• "Adam After the Ice Storm",

• "Love Poem--Describing the Austere Comfort of the Dream in Which Nothing Is Named",

References